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BACON FACTORIES CLOSED*.
DEMAND FOR HIGHER PAT.
(Received noon.)
MELBOURNE, Tins' Day.
The employees of two big bacon factories at Preston and Ballarat respectively struck, following on tlie employers' refusal to grant the employees' demand of a 10 per cent increase in wages. The strike has thrown the industry into chaos, as other employers feel' that it is unsafe to make forward' arrangements: The employees accordingly throughout the industry have been given 14' days' notice of dismissal.—A. and' N.2T.
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Northern Advocate, 25 November 1925, Page 5
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